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  131. Ollendorff, Wilhelm Reich, 25.

  Two

  1. Eve Blau, The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919–1934 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999), 27.

  2. Stefan Zwieg, The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography (London: Hesperides, 2008), 223.

  3. Helmut Gruber, Red Vienna: Experiment in Working-Class Culture, 1919–1934 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 61.

  4. Ibid., 6.

  5. Elizabeth Ann Danto, Freud’s Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918–1938 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), 17.

  6. Ibid., 17.

  7. Ibid., 3.

  8. Ibid., 161.

  9. Ibid., 130.

  10. Paul Roazen, Helene Deutsch: A Psychoanalyst’s Life (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor/Doubleday, 1985), 253.

  11. Helene Deutsch, Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue (New York: Norton, 1973), 110.

  12. Kurt R. Eissler, Freud as an Expert Witness: The Discussion of War Neuroses Between Freud and Wagner-Jauregg (New York: International Universities Press, 1986).

  13. Reich, The Function of the Orgasm (New York: Orgone Institute Press, 1942), 41.

  14. Ibid., 62.

  15. Richard F. Sterba, Reminiscences of a Viennese Psychoanalyst (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985), 41.

  16. Reich, Function of the Orgasm, 74.

  17. Danto, Freud’s Free Clinics, 61.

  18. Deutsch, Confrontations with Myself, 84.

  19. Russell Jacoby, The Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1986), 66.

  20. Danto, Freud’s Free Clinics, 4.

  21. Reich, Function of the Orgasm, 47.

  22. Ibid.

  23. Wilhelm Reich, Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973), 28.

  24. In a 1922 essay, “Concerning Specific Forms of Masturbation,” Reich claims to have cured a twenty-eight-year-old waiter of impotence by analyzing the unconventional method by which he attempted auto-affection; if this is the same patient, the claim of a cure was obviously premature. See Reich, Early Writings (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975), 125–32.

  25. Wilhelm Reich, Reich Speaks of Freud, ed. Mary Higgins and Chester M. Raphael (New York: Noonday, 1968), 70.

  26. Ibid., 67.

  27. Reich, Selected Writings, 29.

  28. Danto, Freud’s Free Clinics, 92.

  29. Sigmund Freud, “Lines of Advance in Psycho-Analytic Therapy” (1919), Standard Edition, 17:163.

  30. Nathan G. Hale, The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in the United States: Freud and the Americans, 1917–1985 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 44.

  31. Myron Sharaf, Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich (London: Hutchinson, 1984), 68.

  32. Hale, Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in the United States, 45.

  33. Reich, Early Writings, 159.

  34. Ibid., 130.

  35. Rachel Maines, The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), 3.

  36. Ibid., 35.

  37. Jonathan Margolis, O: The Intimate History of the Orgasm (New York: Grove Press, 2004), 298.

  38. Ibid., 298.

  39. Reich, Function of the Orgasm, 95.

  40. Ibid., 95.

  41. Ibid.

  42. Sigmund Freud, “Studies in Hysteria” (1895), Standard Edition, 2:137.

  43. Ibid., 1:184

  44. Sigmund Freud, “My Views on the Part Played by Sexuality in the Aetiology of Neuroses” (1906 [1905]), Standard Edition, 7: 274.

  45. Deirdre Bair, Jung: A Biography (Boston: Little, Brown, 2003), 136.

  46. Jacoby, Repression of Psychoanalysis, 42.

  47. Brenda Maddox, Freud’s Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones (London: John Murray, 2006), 54.

  48. Sigmund Freud, Collected Papers, 2:92.

  49. Freud, “Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety” (1926), Standard Edition, 20:92.

  50. Reich, Function of the Orgasm, 85.

  51. Ibid., 98.

  52. Reich, Reich Speaks of Freud, 15.

  53. Martin Shepard, Fritz: An Intimate Portrait of Fritz Perls and Gestalt Therapy (New York: Saturday Review Press, 1975), 38.

  54. Hermann Nunberg and Ernst Federn, Minutes of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society: 1906–1908 (New York: International Universities Press, 1975), 42.

  55. Reich, Early Writings, 202.

  56. Reich, Function of the Orgasm, 96.

  57. Wilhelm Reich, Genitality in the Theory and Therapy of Neurosis, ed. Mary Higgins and Chester M. Raphael (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980), 77.

  58. Sándor Ferenczi, Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality (Albany: Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1938), 38.

  59. Reich, Reich Speaks of Freud, 24.

  60. Reich, Early Writings, 209–10.

  61. Ibid., 214.

  62. Sterba, Reminiscences of a Viennese Psychoanalyst, 87.

  63. Wilhelm Reich, Character Analysis (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972), 169.

  64. Untitled 46-page document, Aurora Karrer Reich Collection, National Library of Medicine.

  65. Wilhelm Reich, People in Trouble, volume 2 of The Emotional Plague of Mankind, trans. Philip Schmitz (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), 107.

  66. Roazen, Helene Deutsch, 219.

  67. Reich, Reich Speaks of Freud, 149.

  68. Wilhelm Reich, Wilhelm Reich Biographical Material: History of the Discovery of the Life Energy, the Emotional Plague of Mankind, volume 2 (Rangeley, Me.: Orgone Institute Press, 1953), 5.

  69. Deutsch, Confrontations with Myself, 157–58.

  70. Reich, Early Writings, 253.

  71. Sharaf, Fury on Earth, 83.

  72. Deutsch, Confrontations with Myself, 157.

  73. Franz Alexander, Samuel Eisenstein, and Martin Grotjahn, eds., Psychoanalytic Pioneers (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1995), 432.

  74. Sterba, Reminiscences of a Viennese Psychoanalyst, 34.

  75. Sharaf, Fury on Earth, 202. Richard Sterba, in “Character and Resistance,” Psychoanalytic Quarterly 20 (1951): 72–76, wrote that Anna Freud’s The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence, “although it does away with much of Wilhelm Reich’s Character Analysis, could hardly have been produced without the latter.”

  76. Eli Zaretsky, Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis (New York: Knopf, 2004), 173.

  77. Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time (New York: Norton, 1988), 472.

  78. Ibid.

  79. Reich, Reich Speaks of Freud, 66.

  80. Reich, Character Analysis, 50.

  81. Ibid., 45.

  82. Ola Raknes, Wilhelm Reich and Orgonomy (Princeton, N.J.: American College of Orgonomy, 2004), 55.

  83. O. Spurgeon English, “Some Recollections of a Psychoanalysis with Wilhelm Reich: September 1929–April 1932,” Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 5, no. 2 (1977): 241.

  84. Ibid.

  85. Ibid.

  86. Reich, Reich Speaks of Freud, 109.

  87. Reich, Character Analysis, 148.

  88. Sterba, Reminiscences of a Viennese Psychoanalyst, 87.

  89. Richard Sterba, “Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects of Character Resistance,” Psychoanalytic Quarterly 22 (1977): 1–20.

  90. Sharaf, Fury on Earth, 100.

  91. Reich, Function of the Orgasm, 166.

  92. Freud to Andreas-Salomé, May 9, 1928, in Ernst Pfeiffer, ed., Sigmund Freud and Lou Andreas-Salomé: Letters (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972), 174.

  93. Ibid., 173.

  94. Reich, Reich Speaks of Freud, 149.

  95. Ibid., 151.

  96. Ibid., 153–54.

  97. Ibid., 59.

  98. Ibid., 9.

  99. Sharaf, Fury on Earth, 85.

  100. Reich, Reich Speaks of Freud, 15.

  101. Reich, Genitality,
8.

  102. Reich, Reich Speaks of Freud, 40.

  103. Reich, Function of the Orgasm, 75.

  104. Reich, Reich Speaks of Freud, 34.

  105. Reich, People in Trouble, 26.

  106. Ibid., 33.

  107. David S. Luft, Eros and Inwardness in Vienna: Weininger, Musil, Doderer (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2003), 151.

  108. Reich, People in Trouble, 25.

  109. Ibid., 33.

  110. Ibid., 35.

  111. Luft, Eros and Inwardness in Vienna, 4.

  112. Jones, Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, 3:136

  113. Martin Freud, Glory Reflected: Sigmund Freud—Man and Father (London: Angus and Robertson, 1957), 194

  114. Zaretsky, Secrets of the Soul, 221.

  115. Freud, The Future of an Illusion (1927), Standard Edition, 21:7.

  116. Zaretsky, Secrets of the Soul, 219.

  117. Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda, with an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller (Brooklyn: Ig, 2005), 38.

  118. Ann Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995), 144.

  119. Larry Tye, The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations (New York: Crown, 1998), 111.

  120. Elias Canetti, The Conscience of Words, trans. Joachim Neugroschel (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979), 205–6.

  121. Zaretsky, Secrets of the Soul, 221.

  122. Ibid., 221.

  123. Ibid.

  124. Reich, People in Trouble, 25.

  125. Riccardo Steiner, It Is a New Kind of Diaspora: Explorations in the Sociopolitical and Cultural Context of Psychoanalysis (London: Karnac Books, 2000).

  126. Ilse Ollendorff, Wilhelm Reich: A Personal Biography. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1969), 14.

  127. W. R. Huggard and W. G. Lockett, Davos as Health-Resort: A Handbook Containing Contributions by A. F. Bill, M.D.; A. Brecke [and Others] and Introduction by W. R. Huggard (Davos: Davos Printing Company, 1907), 239.

  128. Reich, Genitality, 10.

  129. Helga Ferdmann, “Switzerland and Tuberculosis,” in Switzerland Unwrapped: Exposing the Myths, ed. Mitya New (London: I. B. Tauris, 1997), 151.

  130. Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain: A Novel, trans. John E. Woods (New York: Vintage International, 1996), 125.

  131. Ibid., 268.

  132. Thomas Mann, “The Making of ‘The Magic Mountain,’” Atlantic Monthly, January 1953, 42.

  133. Albert Einstein, The World as I See It (San Diego: Book Tree, 2007), 35–36.

  134. Reich, People in Trouble, 7.

  135. Ibid., 7.

  136. Ollendorff, Wilhelm Reich, 15.

  137. Reich, People in Trouble, 204.

  Three

  1. Wilhelm Reich, People in Trouble, volume 2 of The Emotional Plague of Mankind, trans. Philip Schmitz (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), 82.

  2. Ibid., 87.

  3. Ibid., 94.

  4. Ibid., 92–93.

  5. Ibid.

  6. Myron Sharaf, Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich (London: Hutchinson, 1984), 156.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Sigmund Freud, The Question of Lay Analysis: An Introduction to Psychoanalysis (New York: Norton, 1950), 124.

  9. Wilhelm Reich, Reich Speaks of Freud, ed. Mary Higgins and Chester M. Raphael (New York: Noonday, 1968), 79.

  10. Reich, People in Trouble, 74.

  11. Ibid., 74.

  12. Elizabeth Ann Danto, Freud’s Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918–1938 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), 197.

  13. Reich, People in Trouble, 108.

  14. Ibid.

  15. Charlotte Wolff, Magnus Hirschfeld: A Portrait of a Pioneer in Sexology (London: Quartet, 1986), 251.

  16. Reich, People in Trouble, 110.

  17. Lia Laszky, interviewed by Kenneth Tynan, Tynan Archive, British Library, London.

  18. Sharaf, Fury on Earth, 132.

  19. Wilheim Reich, Passion of Youth: An Autobiography, 1897–1951. Ed. Mary Higgins and Chester M. Raphael (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988), 55.

  20. Mikhail Stern and August Stern, Sex in the USSR (New York: Times Books, 1980), 24.

  21. Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, and Edward Dimendberg, The Weimar Republic Sourcebook (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), 323.

  22. Clara Zetkin, Reminiscences of Lenin (London: Modern Books, 1929), 49.

  23. Wolff, Magnus Hirschfeld, 242.

  24. Elisabeth Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan & Co.: A History of Psychoanalysis in France, 1925–1985 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 40.

  25. Richard F. Sterba, Reminiscences of a Viennese Psychoanalyst (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985), 111.

  26. Reich, Reich Speaks of Freud, 56,

  27. Russell Jacoby, Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1986), 80.

  28. Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) Standard Edition, 21:76.

  29. Reich, Reich Speaks of Freud, 44.

  30. Freud, Standard Edition, 21:82.

  31. Wilhelm Reich, The Sexual Revolution; Toward a Self-Regulating Character Structure (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974), 14.

  32. Peter Heller, A Child Analysis with Anna Freud (Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press, 1990), 337.

  33. Ibid., 340.

  34. Ibid., 341.

  35. Ibid., 337–38.

  36. Ibid., 127.

  37. Ibid., 340.

  38. Reich, Reich Speaks of Freud, 51–52.

  39. Ibid., 44, 53.

  40. Reich to Dr. Baker, January 14, 1952, Wilhelm Reich Papers, Sigmund Freud Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

  41. Wolf von Eckardt and Sander L. Gilman, Bertolt Brecht’s Berlin: A Scrapbook of the Twenties (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1993), 22.

  42. Kaes, Jay, and Dimendberg, Weimar Republic Sourcebook, 720.

  43. Gerald Hamilton, Mr. Norris and I: An Autobiographical Sketch (London: A. Wingate, 1956), 11.

  44. Norman Page, Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years (Basingstoke, U.K.: Macmillan, 2000), 45.

  45. David Clay Large, Berlin (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 229.

  46. Reich, People in Trouble, 145.

  47. Paul Roazen and Bluma Swerdloff, Heresy: Sandor Rado and the Psychoanalytic Movement (Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 1995), 83–84.

  48. Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism, ed. Mary Higgins and Chester M. Raphael (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970), 13.

  49. Large, Berlin, 238.

  50. Anton Gill, A Dance Between Flames: Berlin Between the Wars (London: John Murray, 1994), 232.

  51. Large, Berlin, 243.

  52. Reich, People in Trouble, 143.

  53. Ibid., 142.

  54. R.H.S. Crossman, ed., The God That Failed (Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1972), 43.

  55. Reich, People in Trouble, 136.

  56. Edith Jacobson, oral history interview (1971), A. A. Brill Library, New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

  57. Ola Raknes, Wilhelm Reich and Orgonomy (Princeton, N.J.: American College of Orgonomy, 2004), 53.

  58. Reich, Reich Speaks of Freud, 179.

  59. Jacoby, Repression of Psychoanalysis, 67.

  60. Frederick S. Perls, In and Out the Garbage Pail (New York: Bantam, 1969), 49.

  61. Ibid.

  62. Frederick S. Perls, Ego, Hunger, and Aggression: The Beginning of Gestalt Therapy (New York: Random House, 1969), 248.

 

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